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Right, I've come across that page, but I include my name and contact in the header, and don't make more than a request every 15 seconds so it won't hurt their s
by jackschultz 9y ago
Right, I've come across that page, but I include my name and contact in the header, and don't make more than a request every 15 seconds so it won't hurt their servers at all.
And I did have affiliation links initially where I included the non-affiliate links next to them if people didn't want the affiliation. But then I got rid of those cause people didn't like it. I don't care about making money on it, just think it's interesting.
- tyingq 9y agoI suspect they are more interested in their copyrighted content than load on their servers. Hence the licensing program. If you aren't trying to monetize, you will be lower on their radar, but not immune.
- __jal 9y agoWho's copyright?
- tyingq 9y agoReddit's. "By submitting user content to reddit, you grant us a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide license to reproduce, prepare derivative works, distribute copies, perform, or publicly display your user content in any medium and for any purpose, including commercial purposes, and to authorize others to do so." The original comment submitters could grant you a license on their own, but that might be difficult to coordinate.
- bigiain 9y agoYou'll note Reddit do not ask for or claim any copyright there - just a license to use whatever you publish there in specific (though very broad) ways.
- tyingq 9y agoThey do ask for a license that allows them to resell your content.
- boomlinde 9y agoYes, that's still not the same thing as owning the copyright. The difference is significant, because I am not infringing on Reddit's rights by copying and re-publishing a Reddit comment. If anyone, I'm infringing on the copyright of the original author of the comment, while Reddit has no grounds for a copyright infringement lawsuit.
- LamaOfRuin 9y agoTo be clear then, reddit has no apparent copyright (on individual comments anyway). They have a license to the copyrighted work, which they're allowed to re-license. I view this as significant mainly because it changes what they could sue you for, and any fair use evaluation if copyright does enter into it at some point.
- bigiain 9y agoAnd they specifically mention it's a "non-exclusive" license. I suspect Reddit might claim a Collection Copyright in the compilation of posts/comments - so even if you could acquire your own license to a post and each of the comments - if you tried publishing that as a book, Reddit could claim the organisation of those individually copyrighted items is owned by them...